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There’s been a ton of analysis of Barack Obama’s speech yesterday, so the whole thing isn’t worth reviewing. There is, however, one point that I have not seen made elsewhere that I wanted to bring up.

This was, I think, the key sentence in Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. It was about his pastor, Jeremiah Wright:

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The senselessness of war: A World War II German fighter pilot just learned that he shot down and killed his favorite author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince. Dave Shea on Mediatyping. Presenting the right markup for the user’s device. John McCain seems to have run into the Shiite/Sunni confusion that plagues so many [...]

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My friend Stan Taylor is a QA guru at Borland, and has started a new blog to document his experiences with agile testing. I’m very much looking forward to his insights in this area, as Borland has been walking the walk on agile development for awhile now.

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Paul Krugman: How close are we to a liquidity trap? google-collections is a Java library that builds on the Java collections framework. It’s listed as an alpha product but has apparently been in use in production systems at Google for years. My guess is that Josh Bloch is the creator. Turns out there’s an Acknowledgements page [...]

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The word is that the Fed is going to cut overnight interest rates by 100 basis points this week. That’s 1% to you and me. It would lower the rate to 2%. I’m wondering what effect this will have in terms of arresting the current economic crisis.

The fed funds rate (which is explained in [...]

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Nicholson Baker talks about The Charms of Wikipedia in the The New York Review of Books. Great weekend read. There are times when I think that the purpose of all human society up to this point was to enable the creation of Wikipedia. (I agree strongly with Baker’s inclusionist philosophy.) The chef at local restaurant Piedmont [...]

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Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan. jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace. Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a [...]

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Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? - He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick [...]

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Jon Udell interviews Ward Cunningham about how the Eclipse portal exposes its innter workings by way of reports on test results, and the advantages the resulting transparency provides. Really, really interesting stuff. Bruce Schneier discusses a report on the lack of security in implantable medical devices that provide [...]

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Duke professor Vivek Wadhwa has research that shows that there’s no shortage of IT skills on the job market, in spite of the assertions of executives and analysts. Some other researchers agree:

“No one who has come to the question with an open mind has been able to find any objective data suggesting general [...]

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